Description
Carcassonne Big Box combines Klaus-Jürgen Wrede's classic game Carcassonne with 11 expansions. The town of Carcassonne in the south of France is famous for its walls and castles from Roman and medieval times. You build a landscape of roads, cities, monasteries and fields out of tiles and score points with your meeples.
How to play Carcassonne
On your turn you draw a tile and place it so that the landscape continues. You may then place one meeple on that tile – as a traveller on a road, a knight in a city or a monk in a monastery – but only if there is no meeple on that feature yet. When a road or city is completed, you score points and the meeple returns to you. When the tiles run out, the player with the most points wins.
The box contains 11 expansions:
- The River and The Abbot
- Inns & Cathedrals
- Traders & Builders
- The Flying Machines and The Messengers
- The Ferries and The Gold Mines
- Magician & Witch
- The Robbers and The Crop Circles
The rulebook recommends starting with the basic rules without farmers, then adding farmers, and then gradually adding the expansions. You can also use just individual parts of the expansions.
Why you will like it
- Years' worth of play in one box.
- The landscape is different in every game.
- You can explain the base game rules in a few minutes.
- Up to six players can play.
Who Carcassonne Big Box is for
It plays with two to six players aged 7 and up, and the base game takes about 35 minutes. The rules are moderately simple, and players like it best with two to four. It suits families and anyone who wants to get to know Carcassonne in all its variety.
What you might not like
If you combine all the expansions at once, a game becomes long and demanding. It may not suit those who prefer games without randomly drawn tiles.
What's in the box
- Carcassonne base game with river tiles
- 11 expansions
- scoring board and meeples in six colours
- rulebook
Our shop also has Carcassonne and the expansion Carcassonne: Dragon & Fairy.
